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19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/19-ye ... r-AA1RekS6

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Czech president rejects 'Hitler salute' nominee for minister

https://www.dw.com/en/czech-president-r ... a-74923743

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Multiple people arrested at anti-ICE protest in Lower Manhattan, New York, local media reports

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/mu ... i-AA1RpLv6

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Don’t Wait for the Supreme Court to Put the Brakes on Trump’s Fascism
By Robert S. Rivkin
December 1, 2025

Introduction:

(Common Dreams) The “F-word,” fascism, has recently seen increasing use in American public discourse—and for good reason. Some critics claim that the word, fascism, has been overused—and wrongly applied to the behavior and propaganda of President Donald Trump and his regime. They are wrong. Even though other words do describe Trump’s behavior, such as authoritarian, corrupt, cruel, vindictive, racist, or misogynistic, they do not wholly capture the political essence of Donald J. Trump. “Fascist” clearly does.

What are the classic hallmarks of fascism? The analyses of several historians and other experts, such as Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Strongmen), Timothy Snyder (On Tyranny), Jason Stanley (How Fascism Works) and Umberto Eco (“Eternal Fascism,” 1995 article in the New York Review of Books) describe fascism as including these features: mythologizing the past; persecution of racial, religious, or ethnic minorities and celebrating violence against them; pseudo patriotic and militaristic spectacles; big business capture of government; suppression of civil liberties, including free speech; white supremacy, combined with a sense of victimhood; and male dominance. Without any doubt, Trump and his regime qualify as fascist, or at the very least, incipient fascist.

Only recently, the Trump regime issued a memorandum (NSPM-7) in which Trump directs his officials to investigate supposed incidents of “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and anti-Christianity.” Trump falsely claims that leftists and other “antifa” activists use violence to accomplish their political goals. The memorandum facilitates Trump’s threat to go after “the enemy within”—which is anybody who opposes his policies or toxic rhetoric. The “enemy within” designation was widely used by Hitler’s Nazi regime to denigrate Jews. The similarities between the propaganda and legal distortions of that regime and those of the Trump administration are chilling. (See, Hitler’s Justice: The Courts of the]Third Reich, by Ingo Müller). Trump has also announced that he will use the military to enforce the criminal laws throughout the country—despite the prohibitions contained in the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.

What hope can we have that the Supreme Court of the United States will put the brakes on Trump’s fascist policies?

Read more here: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/s ... p-fascism

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Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba is disqualified as top New Jersey prosecutor, US appeals court rules

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1RuIUf

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Lawsuit accuses Trump administration of bias in immigration judge's firing

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lawsu ... r-AA1RvJB2

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Family of Colombian fisherman killed in US boat strike files complaint alleging he was murdered

https://abcnews.go.com/International/fa ... =128056901

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‘Political Stunt Wrapped in Badges’: New Orleans Readies Resistance as Trump Operation Begins

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-new-orleans

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Dozens of spouses detained during 'green card' interviews

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dozen ... r-AA1RFiOV

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Grand jury refuses to re-indict Letitia James

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1RK4L4

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Supreme Court to decide legality of Trump move to limit birthright citizenship

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1RNylN

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NYT- This Is the Kind of Bigotry We Rejected Decades Ago

https://archive.ph/xmVZ8

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Trump ally Habba resigns after court disqualified her as US attorney

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1RXqvu